The of Eva: A Mexican Refugee in El Paso

Mark Lusk and Griselda Villalobos

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2012, vol. 27, issue 1, 17-25

Abstract: As a result of the drug wars in Mexico and the associated widespread violence and lawlessness, hundreds of undocumented refugees have crossed the border into the United States to escape physical violence, death threats, extortion, kidnapping and other dangers in Mexico. The authors have been conducting in-depth interviews of Mexican refugees. Of those, Eva stands out as the most eloquent and poignant expression of injustice, suffering, fear, and invisibility. Her witness to the struggle of refugees from violence is told as a testimonio—a style of oral history that has deep roots in Latin America and which is characterized by a plea for justice.

Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/08865655.2012.676321 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rjbsxx:v:27:y:2012:i:1:p:17-25

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjbs20

DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676321

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Borderlands Studies is currently edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde

More articles in Journal of Borderlands Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().